Newspaper Correction Of The Year: The New Jersey Rabbis
THOSE New Jersey rabbis who laundered money and aold body parts to before politcos - well, it’s wrong: The New York Times was almost right:
“An article on Oct. 25 about the recent governor’s race in New Jersey misidentified the illegal activity that some Sephardic rabbis had been accused of and that the article characterized as part of the state’s infamous corruption. The rabbis were charged with money laundering, not with selling body parts and then using the money to bribe politicians. (There was a Brooklyn man accused of conspiring to broker the sale of a kidney, and several New Jersey politicians accused of corruption, all of whom were arrested the same day as the rabbis.)”
Not too bad an effort at reporting from the world’s biggerst newspaper brand…
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Pirelli 2010 Calendar In Artful Nudity (NSFW)
THE 2010 Pirelli Calendar is erotica for men who spend a long time looking at tyres. Michelin has restaurants and Pirelli has women. No moves into the world of spas for Continental, yet. In our NSFW (unless your place of work is a garage), we see Daisy Lowe, Lily Cole, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley, Marloes Horst, Catherine McNeil, Georgina Stojiljkovic, Enriko Mihalik, and Miranda Kerr working with photographer Terry Richardson to make soft porn look like soft porn you can hang on wall in your garage.
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Key Posts, Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Global Warming And BBC Bias With Richard Black And Ariel Magazine
CLIVE Davis spots an article by the BBC’s environment correspondent, Richard Black - read it here - in which he talks of the notion that the BBC is biased on climate change reporting.
Ask yourself this: when was the last time you saw a BBC report that questioned the science that says man-made global warming is going to cause untold devastation?
The BBC has two editorial golden rules: global warming is real and whatever happens in Israel must be the lead news story.
As Davis says: “His reflections on the aftermath - published in the house magazine, Ariel - don’t seem to be online.
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Global Warming | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail And Tax Payers’ Alliance Attacks BBC Over Its Free Trees For A Better Planet
THE Daily Mail is no fan of the BBC and free trees. The BBC is full of guff - only this morning it gave us two climate change stories:
1. “BBC2, 7pm Wed 25 Nov: Can Obama Save the Planet?“, presented by Justin Rowlatt.
2. A story in which we learnt - with no facts - that Australian bush fires are arriving earlier than ever and are more intense, and that Australia is sometimes called - get this - “the Saudi Arabia of coal“.
MacGuffin notices that its “latest pathetic assault on the BBC comes in a story about trees”. He has more:
BBC under fire for Autumnwatch tree giveaway costing licence fee payers £150,000 reveals:
The Beeb is handing out 300,000 free trees at a thousand different garden centres, nurseries and DIY stores nationwide.
Each sapling has cost the corporation 32 pence - £96,000 in total
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Secret To A Happy Marriage Is Fear, Animals And A Hairy Back
A REPORT in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology says the recipe for a stable home life is to marry an agricultural engineer, optometrists, dentists, a member of the clergy or a podiatrist.
They stay with their partners longest because they are, in order: living on a remote farm with no livestock; spending time with the elderly; depressed; fearful of being watched and judged; and only ever see feet.
If you want volatility marry a dancer, choreographers, bartenders, massage therapist, or telephone operator. Phone operators make unreliable lovers – for them, the thrill is in being engaged. Geddit?!
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Polar Bears Commit Suicide In New Cinema Advert
POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at polar bears in the news: Polar bears are falling from the skies and being used to illustrate how climate change activism is based on bad science.
In the Mail, Christopher Booker asks:
Are we making the most expensive mistake in history?
On the Government’s own figures, the Climate Change Act is going to cost Britain £18 billion a year - that’s £720 for every household in the country - every year from now until 2050.
Of course, the thing about global warming is that even if it is not happening now, it might happen in the future. The irony is that what Booker calls a “colossal scare story” should feature in the Mail, home to scare stories.
But we should be afraid because Plane Stupid has filmed polar bears falling from the skies – without parachutes!
Posted: 23rd, November 2009 | In: Global Warming | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Cockermouth In Cumbria: Those Floods In Pictures
THOSE floods in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, has cost one life and damaged many more. After the floods, Gordon Brown arrives. He frowns. He smiles. She frowns. He empathises.On a happier note, adolescent boys have never sniggered so much:
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Posted: 22nd, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
In Pictures: CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute
AT the CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Filipino educator Efren Peñaflorida is being crowned ‘2009 Hero of the Year’ as decided by such hero makers as former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Whoopi Goldberg (rape-rape), Ted Turner, Shakira, Sir Elton John and website voters.
For his “pushcart classroom”, aka the Dynamic Teen Company, Peñaflorida gets to meet Eva Mendes, whish makes his work worthwhile. In case meeting a jobbing celeb is not enough Peñaflorida also receive $100,000. This will be used to fund his work.
Posted: 22nd, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Immigration Is Out Of Control, Says British Media Survey
THE Daily Express and Daily Star likes to report on immigration matters. Remember when the Rogarians were coming to get us?
MacGuffin investigates the latest exclusive:
The Star is reporting on the results of a new survey which reveals “British people think immigration is out of control“.
OK, so that’s not surprising, but this is not something that any other newspaper has covered. How come?
A massive 99% of Daily Star readers voted yes in our poll asking if the UK’s immigration issue was now out of control.
Posted: 22nd, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Children In Need In Pictures: With Taylor Swift, JLS And BBC Staff
CHILDREN IN NEED: BBC liggers, civil servants, The Nolans, Paloma Faith, Peter Andre, Madness, Duncan James, Pixie Lott, someone from Hollyoaks, JLS, Peter Andre and Taylor Swift present the national charity telethon…
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Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
PHONE sex in the 1980s was more obvious than now. And proud to be so. The Oral Sex Phone is all over the internets. And it is a wonderful device.
“Here’s a phone that’s both functional and fabulous. Superbly sculptured by a European artist, it’s masterpiece of lightweight, micro-processor technology. The erotica phone plugs into any wall jack and is fully guaranteed. The quantity is limited so order now. It costs only $69.95 (plus $5 for shipping and handling) to won the ultimate conversation piece.”
Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Large Hadron Collider Brings Back Satan And Kills Everyone Again
THE Large Hadron Collider has been plugged in and switched on. This means that with the Satan Machine alive you are either a) dead; b) about to die; c) living in a world without Switzerland; d) carrying on.
Read our history of the Large Hadron Collider, which is now killing everyone for a second time…
Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Victoria’s Secret Models And Thierry Henry’s Hand Presents Pictures Of The Week
PICTURES of the week, presented by Thierry Henry’s hand, Victoria’s Secret models, Camilla’s backside, Herman Van Rompuy and more…
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Posted: 21st, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
German Newspaper In War Over Dieksmann’s Penis
GERMAN newspaper Die Tageszeitung is upset with German tabloid Bild that it has decorated the outside of its headquetrs with a unveiled an artwork depicting Kai Diekmann, Bild’s spreading editor-in-chief sporting a six-metre penis.
(Dieksmann. Penis. Might this be nominative determinism)
The mural, by Peter Lenk, says “Peace be with You”. There are images reflects Bild’s headline scremers:
“Emasculated by the mother-in-law’s dachshund”
“Federal Court of Justice: Now everyone can say pecker”
“First goal scored with a penis!”
Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Al Gore Still Used To Be The Next President of The United States
THE AL Gore effect - the one-man weather machine is Seattle. Gore’s the one who used to be the next president of the United States. Have you heard?
Former Vice President Al Gore was in Seattle Tuesday to speak at Town Hall and promote his new book, “Our Choice: Creating a Green Future.”
It’s choice? Al Fore is a man who aligns deed with word - he’s recycling his old joke at GreenBeat 2009
“I am Al Gore I used to be the next president of the United States.”
Posted: 20th, November 2009 | In: Global Warming | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Fiona MacKeown’s Benefits Fraud Linked To Daughter Scarlett’s Rape And Murder
FIONA MacKeown has been charged with benefit fraud. When Fiona MacKeown’s daughter Scarlett Keeling was raped and murdered in Goa, the voracious media examined the mother.
The Mail’s writers queued up to suggest that Keating’s lifestyle was in some way complicit in her daughter’s death:
“Sorry, but I blame Scarlett’s mother,” said Allison Pearson on the Mail’s front page.
Keith Waterhouse gave us:
A family of eight, living entirely on benefit allowances, managed to get as far as Goa for an extended holiday, where one of their number was murdered.
In his – oh, the irony – eponymous column, the Sun’s Jon Gaunt whined:
“Let’s not beat about the bush, Fiona MacKeown is an irresponsible mother… Fiona is typical of the kind of mother who wants everything and sees her kids as an inconvenience that can be palmed off at any excuse – she’s a clear example of the ME, ME, ME generation.”
Fiona MacKeown was not dumb and feckless. She was self-aware:
“I have nine children which makes you strong and there has been a lot to do. When I have nothing to do but think - it’s very hard. She really fought for her life and I think about that all the time.”
How does she feel about all the criticism of her for leaving Scarlett?
“I’m not surprised, really. Look at what’s been said about Madeleine McCann’s mother, and she is the picture of elegance.”
Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (8) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Reviews Of The Decade In Pictures: 2000 In Showbiz
IN 2000, this is what was hot on showbiz. Anorak’s reviews of the decade - Year 2000 in pictures - with Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Michael Cain, Jude Law, Sir Richard Branson, Billy Bob Thornton, Leonardo Di Caprio, Giselle Bundchen, Dame Shirley Bassey, Victoria Beckham, Model Kelly Brook, Madonna, Sir Bob Geldof, Paula Yates, Big Brother, Robert Downey Jnr, Guy Ritchie and Halle Berry…
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Posted: 19th, November 2009 | In: Flashback | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Move Like Michael Jackson: A BBC TV Talent Show
BBC Three might well be less alive than Michael Jackson, the man it seeks to laud with a new six-part dance series called Move Like Michael Jackson.
This is great news for dads at discos and weddings who can now lie prone on the floor and claim to be moving like Michael Jackson.
It turns out that the show is not a séance hosted by Derek Acorah wired to a car battery, ready to channel Jacko’s dance at the turn of a key but a thing so wonder hosted by Radio 1’s Reggie Yates.
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Geeta Aulakh: Daily Mail Pushes The Asian Theory
GEETA Aulakh is dead. The mother of two young sons was found in the streets on Greenford, London. Her hand had been severed. She was unconscious. She died as a result of head injury. Any more facts? Well, she was an Anglo-Asian and that means the media can speculate:
Daily Mail: “Honour killing theory as mother-of-two is found dumped in the street with her hand severed”
Well it is a theory. There are others, which Mail readers can learn of a few paragraphs into the story:
Police are investigating several theories behind the murder, including jealousy, access to the children or bringing dishonour on the family.
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Now Watch: Spotting Cases Of NOW… In The Tabloids
IN today’s edition of Now Watch - Anorak’s look at “NOW” in news headlines - the Daily Express shines a light on Ben Elton who dared to poke fun at our Queen and the Royal Mail - who may or may not have killed Princess Diana, as reported in the Daily Express for years and years and years …
Posted: 18th, November 2009 | In: Media | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
- June on The Pirelli 2010 Calendar In Artful Nudity (NSFW)
- June on Susan Boyle: World Divided Over SuBo And Lady Susan
- Tony on Daily Mail And Tax Payers’ Alliance Attacks BBC Over Its Free Trees For A Better Planet
- Cheryl on Susan Boyle: World Divided Over SuBo And Lady Susan
- cheekyappleblossom on I’m A Celebrity: Quitter Katie Price Wanted To Die With Jedward
